In the second half, Breanna Stewart scored 18 of the 27 points, and New York Liberty’s 3-point shots pushed them to 82-77 against the Golden State Valkyries in Brooklyn on Thursday.
New York (5-0) hit only 25 of the 3-point arc, but the team’s long-range shots-and especially Sabrina Ionescu’s 15 of 15-6 of 15 of the team helped avoid the first loss of the season.
Ionescu scored five 3 points in the first half and took a break with 17 points. He finished with 24 points and took New York to the team performance in 13 out of 13 outside.
Kennedy Burke added three times to four times to go to 11 points. Burke also captured seven rebounds to match Stewart, while Leoine Fiebich took eight boards for freedom.
Janelle Salaun directed all the players with 13 rebounds and received the team’s highest score for Valkyries (2-3). Golden State took the WNBA champion Liberty, who reigned after losing 28 points in the matching of the same two teams only two nights ago.
Valkyries remained 3:56 in Temi Fagbenle’s bucket. Stewart replied at the other end before Salaun was connected to one of the three points and pushed Golden State 75-73 forward in the 3:11 sign.
The stock market was part of the six leadership change for the last four minutes, and the end of New York’s 6-0 run. 78-77 leading Liberty, Golden State 42.1 seconds before the time-out game for forcing a five-second violation for forcing a great defense stop.
Natasha Cloud later brought together the game with the change of property and threw a pair of free. The series created four of Cloud’s seven points.
He added five rebounds and five assists.
Kayla threw 10 points for Thornton Golden State, adding 10 more points from the Monicque Billings counter, and Fagbenle took nine rebounds with five rebounds.
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